The Council, and I am now going to refer to its previous management, who could have prevented the current situation from arising, considerably shortened the Commission’s proposal, thus allowing floating timebombs to continue sailing until 2005, instead of having taken them out of use in September 2002, which is what would have happened if attention had been paid to the Commission.
De Raad - die de huidige situatie had kunnen voorkomen - heeft in het verleden flink het mes gezet in de voorstellen van de Commissie, met als resultaat dat deze drijvende bommen tot 2005 mogen blijven varen, alhoewel de Commissie ze in september 2002 uit de vaart had willen nemen.
